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Parenting Styles and Juvenile Delinquency: Exploring Gendered Relationships
Author(s) -
Tapia Mike,
Alarid Leanne Fiftal,
Clare Courtney
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
juvenile and family court journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.155
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1755-6988
pISSN - 0161-7109
DOI - 10.1111/jfcj.12110
Subject(s) - juvenile delinquency , permissive , psychology , developmental psychology , parenting styles , authoritarianism , style (visual arts) , social psychology , political science , medicine , geography , democracy , archaeology , virology , politics , law
We use the NLSY 97 dataset to examine the parenting‐delinquency relationship and how it is conditioned by parents’ gender, controlling for youths’ gender. Generally, neglectful and authoritarian parenting styles were associated with the highest levels of delinquency in youths. When the sample was split by parent gender, authoritarianism held up across both groups, but permissive and neglectful parenting was only significant for fathers. Independent of parenting style, boys have higher delinquency levels than girls. The strength and magnitude of this relationship is nearly identical in separate equations for mothers and fathers. Parental attachment was not a significant protective factor against delinquency for either mothers or fathers.